Word: imperfections
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...turning opportunity into rubble. Newt was the one who made unbalanced budgets a thing of the past, but it was Clinton who somehow got credit for it, rode to re-election, hauled his own party toward a more sensible center and emerged from Tuesday's election America's favorite imperfect leader. Voters might have retired Clinton in 1996 for moving too far to the left had Gingrich not come along and yanked the whole enterprise too far to the right. Gingrich had always been Clinton's best foil, the uglier alternative to whom Clinton kept pointing every time Americans...
...even the recommendation of prosecution for those who failed to seek amnesty for specific violations -- such as former president P.W. Botha and former first lady Winnie Mandela -- is unlikely to be deemed politically or legally expedient. But its impact shouldn't be underestimated: "Everybody knew the process would be imperfect," says TIME South Africa correspondent Peter Hawthorne. "But the impact of revealing the dark secrets of the past has been profound -- nobody in South Africa has been unaffected by the evidence heard at the commission...
Mansfield has become well-known at Harvard for his memorably controversial comments. In 1993, he testified on behalf of an anti-gay rights proposition in Colorado, calling the "kinky sexual practices" of gays "shameful" and saying homosexual love is "imperfect and stunted and frustrated." Mansfield has also spoken out against affirmative action, linking the practice to declining academic standards at the College...
Mansfield has become well-known at Harvard for his memorably controversial comments. In 1993, he testified on behalf of an anti-gay rights proposition in Colorado, calling the "kinky sexual practices" of gays "shameful" and saying homosexual love is "imperfect and stunted and frustrated." Mansfield has alsospoken out against affirmative action, linking the practice to declining academic standards at the College...
...issue here is not just whether the final grade given is ultimately the right one. Grading is by its nature imperfect. Something much more important is at stake: the quality of undergraduate education at Harvard. William Mills Todd III, the dean of undergraduate education, agrees. When I asked him whether he thought the subjective grading of undergraduates by other undergraduates was ever acceptable at the College, he responded, "Absolutely not." He was equally reassuring when I asked him if he would support a Faculty Council resolution prohibiting this practice from happening in the future. "Yes, absolutely," he wrote...